Easier to reach than ever, totally exclusive and mostly untouched, the nation’s Red Sea coast may be the world’s next luxury holiday haven ...

Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching ...

The Great Barrier Reef, a global treasure and the largest coral reef system on Earth, has suffered its most widespread coral ...

“Not all corals are attached to the substrate; some are solitary and free-living, allowing them to migrate into preferred ...

Marine scientists highlights the complex interplay between heat stress, disease onset and coral mortality. They found that 66 percent of the colonies were bleached by February 2024 and 80 per cent by ...

Mark Twain famously stated that God must have built Mauritius first, then replicated Heaven from Mauritius. This beautiful ...

Ministers have been urged to prioritise funding the UK’s military over giving more money to Mauritius to resolve the future of the Chagos Islands. The Conservatives raised concerns over reports that ...

Coral reefs are marine structures created by calcifying coral animals and their algal symbionts. Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas ...

Britain has been asked to pay up billions of pounds of taxpayers' cash as part of the Chagos Islands surrender, it has emerged. In October, Sir Keir Starmer and Mauritian counterpart Pravind Jugnauth ...

The new government in Mauritius has put the deal over Chagos Islands with the United Kingdom in jeopardy. In a historic deal announced in October, the British and Mauritian governments agreed that the ...

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